The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-16

At meeting of the Perry Guards col
ored), of Jacksonville, Monday evening, q
reorganization under the new State militia
law was effected with thirty-four members,
and the following officers were elected, the
proper papers being forwarded to Coy.
Perry for approval: Captain, Willis Viii
liams; First Lieutenant, j. II. Bunham;
Second Lieutenant, w. Lowrie; First Ser
geant, Charles Bundy; Second Sergeant,
Charles Arnau; Third Sergeant, Danlei
McFerris; Fourth Sergeant, g. Floyd; Fi1th
Sergeant, David Jones; First Corporal, j.
H. Williams; Second Corporal, A; Long
worth; Third Corporal. r. j. Williams;
Fourth Corporal S. Small.
| General Manager Haines, of the Plant
| system, was in Tampa Tuesday and said
| the company proposed recalling the bid for
carrying the mail from Tampa TO Havana
via Key West unless the present quarah-
tine is modified. The present contract ex-
pires July l. Unless a new one is made the
steamers will withdraw for the summer.
Work is temporarily suspended on the deep
water extension of the South Florida rall-
road pending the action of the steamship
line. A meeting of the Board of Trade had
| a conference with Mr. Haines as to the best
method for adoption. The telephone line to
the quarantine camp is completed. The
town is in splendid sanitary condition.
Readers of the MORNING News will re-
| member the recent assault upon. Jack HAD
| dock, near Jacksonville, and which 1T was
i thought would result in his death, and the
subsequent arrest and discharge of several
| parties believed to have been his aSsallants.
| 1t was finally ascertaned that man by the
name of Bud Smith, of Baker county, was
the guilty party, and Sheriff Holland imme-
diately took steps to run him down and Sc
cure his arrest. Tuesday Smith came TO
Jacksonville, and, upon finding the Sheriff,
t,Nh cd
county jail. He said that he knew that the
Sheriff was having him traced from one
| point to another, and that sooner or later he
| would be arrested; consequently he con
cluded that the best thing for him to do was
! to surrender and be done with it. He Will
be released on bail if he can raise the 500
| demanded.
| w. II. Taylor, Johnson's Greek, New
! York, and s. G.. Hawkins, who owns the
Curtis place, nine miles from Quincy, are
busily engaged in drying blackberries for
market. Put one in water, after the process
of evaporation, during the winter, and it be-
comes as fresh as when plucked from the
bush. They have an evaporation that will
dry seventy-five bushels of berries per day.
Mr.. j. l.. McFarlin has one in Quincy of the
| capacity of fifteen bushels daily. Then are
ten pounds in bushel, when dried, and the
New York quotations are 19c. per pound.
The season lasts for two months, and there
| is the greatest abundance of the fruit, which
is chiefly gathered by the colored people,
and is sold at the rate Of 40c. for fifty
pounds. This is the third season that has
been utilized by Hawkins & Taylor in this
| industry, and they expect for the present
one to realize clear profit of $1,000. 1t is
said that these two evaporators are the only
ones used in the State for this purpose.
The commencement exercises of the Lake
City Peabody High School took place at
Cleveland's Hall Thursday night, and were
more than usually interesting. The hall
was packed to the OVERLOOKING, and many
could not find even standing room. The
exercises consisted of the usual features
| readings, recitations, speeches, etc.-and
wound-up by calisthenics. which was sur
prise to the audience There were four
| graduates, viz: Miss Sallie Luther, Miss
Leila Stoy, Miss Georgia Berger and Miss
Katie Waldron. The prize winners were as
follows: Miss FIorrie .Stoy, gold medal; pre-
paratory department, Miss LOWE Roberts,
gold medal primary department, Miss
Katie B. Waltz gold medal; elementary de
partmept Clyde Taylor, gold medal. The
children all showed in a marked degree the
usual care that had been taken with them
by their teachers, and their recitations and
the thorough examination they underwent
proved conclusively the high efficiency of
| the teachers.
The Secretary of War having granted the
use of the Old Fort Marion and its large
reservation to hold the coming State en-
campment upon, provided st. Augustine is
selected by Gov Perry, which all the st.
| Augustine people earnestly hope he may, in
| his executive WISDOM find it pleasure to
do. Ordnance Sergt Brown since the
removal of the Indians, has had the fort
| thoroughly renovated and cleaned up in
every nook and corner From a late visit
! would no et1r-ra.icoJ tho
| in this direction brought about by Sergt.
| Brown. All the casernates have been care
| fully cleanSed, and where necessary, strong
| disinfectants applied, while the military
| boys will have ample chance to mark how
fast time will fly as they tell of their great
| deeds of valor to the fair ones, while resting
| from the merry waltzes that it has been pro-
posed to use the parapet for, which can not
be equaled by any ball room in the State,
| famed as il is by the ocean breeZeS which
come out of the great east every evening.
| The orange crop in Orange county will be
| decidedly larger than heretofore estimated
even though the June bloom fails to appear
At Oviedo, in addition to DR.. Fosters heavy
| crop i'll his Gee hunmOck grove, a yield
| estimated at 10000 boxes, his fine grove at
| Lake Charm will also produce handsomely
| Mr.. Meade, it is said. viii have moderate
| crop. Other parties in the Lake Jesup hum
| mocils, ID is now said. will have moderate
crops There must have been more bloom
than suspected and bloom that developed
into fruit in place Of whitening, as is usual
with large proportion of the bloom when
it is excessively heavy At first the young
oranges could not be seen, having the same
deep green color as the leaves. Now, the
| fruit having attained diameter of an inch
to an inch and half, they are more read
! ly visible, but not until they change to their
golden color will they become fully promi-
nent. Capt. NJ. Z. Brock is vigorously
trimming his home grove at Oviedo, which
is quite heavily laden with fruit, from which
he says he expects 1000 boxes He had
1900 boxes last year from this grove On
his hummock groves he expects about 800
boxes. Mr.. Jellzs' grove in the northern
part of the town also gives promise of a
good yield. Mr. J. S. Wamble's fine budded
grove shows surprising number of oranges,
probably have an average crop or more.
Quarantine stations are as thick in South
Florida rs new county lines. Mr.. A. i.
Hitchcock, of Auburndale, started to Or
lando on business last Saturday and en-
countered one of these county line quaran-
tine stations at Campbell's, south of
kissimmee. The guard demanded ''sur-
tiflcates' of all on the train. Mr.. Hitchcock
carried paper given him by DIR. Duck
worth, who has just been appointed
assistant health officer of Polk county. The